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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by pas on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @04:54AM (#17808094)
> will now feel deeply betrayed by the Mozilla Foundation.

Was there an explicit or implicit covenant by Mozilla and those users?

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Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027 by wolfgke on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @05:25AM (#17808205)
> Was there an explicit or implicit covenant by Mozilla and those users?

I believe Mozilla's clear stance on DRM in the past (and its clear differentiation against other browser vendors in this respect) is near to such an implicit covenant.

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